5 Review (s)

  1. Marina GERASIMOVA, Serpukhov

    Decorative pumpkins are a real decoration of my garden. With their help, I decorate the arch and walls of the summer kitchen. In autumn I make beautiful compositions that I keep all winter and delight the eye with bright colors.
    I usually grow two varieties: Borovichok (pumpkins grow small, with a white stem and a bright orange hat) and Dutch Baby Beer (round orange fruits barely reach 15 cm in diameter and weigh up to 500 g).
    Borovichok is a completely decorative variety. Ripe fruits are very hard, there is little pulp in them, and it is tasteless. But Baby Beer pumpkins are not only beautiful, but also edible. I grow all pumpkins through seedlings. I sow seeds in the second half of April, one at a time in small cups with wet, rotted sawdust. I plant in the garden in holes filled with humus (2-3 shovels), wood ash (1 tbsp.) And any complex mineral fertilizer (1 tbsp.). I make sure that the distance between plants is at least 1 m.

    Further care is reduced to weeding, watering and timely tying of lashes to vertical surfaces. I collect fruits when the stalk dries.

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  2. Anna Ivanovna Muravtsova, Gomel region, p. Terehovka

    Lose weight from friendship with a “fatty”

    Pumpkin is remarkable in that it contains a rather rare vitamin T. It is thanks to him that the orange fruit belongs to the category of “fat burners” and is recommended in dietary nutrition.
    Stewed and baked pumpkin can be considered an ideal side dish for pork, beef and other fatty foods. Such an additive to meat will not allow fat to be deposited on your waist.
    And thanks to the vitamin E contained in the fruit, pumpkin has a unique ability to slow down the aging of the body. It also has properties to prevent the appearance of wrinkles and age spots, alleviate pain in the lower back, reduce the feeling of coldness in the extremities due to insufficient blood flow.
    Pumpkin is also a good diuretic, which is determined by the presence of potassium salts in its composition. And the pectin substances contained in it in large quantities contribute to the removal of toxins and cholesterol from the body.

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  3. Nikolai Fedorovich MARCHENKOV, Penza region, Nizhny Lomov

    If the pumpkin crop is not harvested on time, then when the first cold weather sets in, they can freeze slightly and will be poorly stored in the future. But there are varieties whose fruits simply do not have time to reach full ripeness during the summer season. Of course, they can ripen at home, but this will affect their keeping quality and taste.
    Meanwhile, you can speed up the ripening of the orange beauty in the garden. Of course, the timing will be different every year because it depends on the weather conditions, but in general the simple methods I have described are enough to allow the pumpkin to reach ripeness.
    First of all, a bush, on which there are many flowers and fruits, wastes its strength in vain. Therefore, already at the end of July, take a closer look at how many pumpkins you will leave on the plant, because until the end of August - the beginning of September, you need to pinch the young shoots, remove flowers and extra small pumpkins. The stem itself, on which the fruits grow, should also be pinched, leaving 3 leaves above the last “ball”. In small-fruited and portioned varieties weighing up to 3 kg, 4-5 pumpkins can be left on the plant, in large-fruited varieties - no more than two.
    Be sure to feed pumpkins once a week with infusion of ash and twice as often with infusion of superphosphate, this will speed up ripening. If you need to take care that the pumpkin does not rot, you can put plywood under it or mulch the soil with sawdust.
    Council
    If mice were seen on the site, scatter black peas or red hot pepper powder around pumpkin plants, then rodents will not spoil your crop.
    Note
    A pumpkin is considered ripe when its rind becomes firm. Try to scratch it with your fingernail, if it doesn’t work out, the fetus can be removed.

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  4. Anna ELISEEVA

    I always keep the pumpkin under the table in the bedroom. Far from battery. I make sure that the fruits do not touch each other, if possible, I also separate them from each other with paper partitions. Usually the harvest can be kept like this until spring. And this year I noticed that one of the pumpkins had a wet bottom. I cut it - inside the pulp was strong, the skin did not soften anywhere. It doesn't look like the pumpkin got sick. What is this phenomenon and is it possible to keep this pumpkin further?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      This happens if the pumpkin is not fully ripe. At the bottom of the fruit is the remnant of the pistil of the flower, which looks like a small tubercle. If the pumpkin is not ripe, then this tubercle sticks out, and besides, it is still juicy and has not had time to dry. When you put the pumpkin on the bottom, then the entire mass of the fruit falls on this tubercle, and it is crushed.

      At the same time, liquid flows out of it, and the pumpkin may begin to rot in this place. If the scarring of the lesions occurs faster than their infection, then the wounds will heal and the pumpkin may well be preserved. To avoid this phenomenon, you need to put foam rubber or tourist rugs under the pumpkin fruits. In the old days, for example, pumpkins were stored on a layer of straw, which helps to distribute pressure on the entire lower part of the fruit.

      Anton LESHCHEV, Cand. of sciences

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